November, 2026

LocalSend 1.18.2 on Linux: AirDrop Alternative With a CLI LocalSend is the open-source cross-platform answer to Apple’s AirDrop, and after seven years of development it is still the tool I reach for when a phone and a laptop need to swap a folder of photos without touching a cloud server. Version 1.18.2, released on August... » read more

Bottles 67.6 on Linux: Proton Without Steam Bottles 67.6 landed on November 4, 2026, and while the changelog reads like a normal point release, one item in it changes the shape of the whole project: UMU is now something you can actually steer from the GUI. If you have followed Linux gaming for a while,... » read more

Linux Mint has spent twenty years on a six-month release treadmill. That treadmill is finally going away. When Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” lands around Christmas 2026, it will be the first release under a completely new versioning scheme, the first built on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and the first to ship a desktop where Wayland is... » read more

Nushell 0.117.0 shipped on 9 November 2026, and it is the most substantial release the project has shipped in a while. The Rust-written shell now has roughly 41,000 GitHub stars, an MIT licence, and a feature list that finally delivers on the original promise of the language: *stop parsing text, start piping data*. Most of... » read more

Figure: The official GE-Proton repository on GitHub. Every release, including GE-Proton 11-12, is published here. If you play Windows games on Linux or on a Steam Deck, you have almost certainly heard of Proton. Valve’s own compatibility layer is good, but it is deliberately conservative: it ships when a fix is safe enough for everybody,... » read more

If you have ever wanted to play Heroes of Might and Magic II on a modern Linux box without wrestling with a 1996 DOS executable, the open-source engine fheroes2 has been the answer for years. This week it got substantially better. Version 1.1.18 was tagged on GitHub on 8 November 2026 and announced publicly on... » read more